Are the Chicago Bears Close to a Stadium Breakthrough?

Summary

Dan Bernstein Unfiltered – Episode Summary

Episode: Are the Chicago Bears Close to a Stadium Breakthrough?
Date: June 22, 2026
Host: Dan Bernstein
Co-host: Matt Abbatacola (longtime producer)

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Episode Theme:

A no-holds-barred breakdown of the Chicago Bears’ fraught efforts to secure a new stadium deal, ongoing political shenanigans, and a candid look at how incompetence and posturing have delayed real progress—with updates on other key local and national sports headlines.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Chicago Bears’ Stadium Saga – Are We Nearing a Breakthrough?

Time: 01:44–20:11

• Failed Negotiations & Political Stalemate

  • The Bears’ initial push for a new stadium, primarily in Arlington Heights, “crashed and burned and failed spectacularly in Springfield” at the end of the last legislative session. (04:00)
  • Governor J.B. Pritzker made it clear: “Get your shit together. Happy to call the special session.” (03:21, Matt quoting Pritzker)
  • Bernstein lambastes Bears’ leadership (Kevin Warren) for not doing the political groundwork—opting instead for grandstanding and “silly games,” including bluffing about moving to Indiana. (03:23–04:43)

• Chasing Attention & Proposals from Every Angle

  • The failed efforts created a power vacuum, inviting all manner of “clowns and grifters and mimes and dancers” to put forth their own stadium sites—like McCook, with its “slag heap and human waste” reputation. (05:29, 14:31)
  • Comedic breakdown of a “hilarious” photo: local McCook officials in untucked shirts and jeans hand-delivering a stadium proposal, demonstrating the circus nature of the process. (“Two guys who look like they just got out of a car holding their mail…” 16:11–17:10)

• A Possible Shifting of Gears

  • Shia Kappos (Politico) reports that “the conversation is moving again”—the Bears are now finally working with Illinois officials, even drafting legislative language for a deal. (06:10–07:05)
  • Bernstein sees this as a positive sign: drafting legislation signals an end to the months of “silly brinksmanship”—but only after “crashing and burning” in public, “talked to condescendingly like children” by the Governor, and forced to finally engage in good faith. (08:00–09:40)
  • “They needed a complete public embarrassment before they started doing the actual work.” (09:05)

• Lies and Spin from Bears Leadership

  • The hosts call out the Bears’ recent official statement about moving attention to Hammond, Indiana, as “a complete lie.” (11:47–12:13)
  • Bernstein: “It is astonishing…there were people like, ‘I think they’re moving.’ The amount of gullibility of people whose very job it is to know better.” (12:13)
  • Truth: “While we were lying, we were also talking to the governor and everybody else because we own all this land we want to build on.” (20:11)

Memorable Quotes:

• “You don’t call a special session to draw up a flight plan. You call a special session to land the plane.” – Cam Buckner, quoted by Dan (09:53)
• “They needed the crash and burn before they did any of the work. It’s unbelievable.” – Dan Bernstein (12:13)
• “Onward we go. When you hear that they’ve called a special session, that means the deal is in place.” – Dan Bernstein (20:30)

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2. Bears Culpability and Comedic Relief

Time: 10:59–18:39

• Kevin Warren’s Role & Responsibility

  • Co-host Matt: “It’s unfortunate already, well in advance, that Kevin Warren will be involved in any of this. He should have been fired when this failed.” (11:22–11:31)
  • Bernstein predicts Warren “will be there front and center claiming victory,” even while “looking to move on to his next job.” (11:31–11:41)

• Mocking PR Blunders

  • Memorable detail: McCook officials’ attire when hand-delivering their proposal (“What you slept in…a zookeeper… best untucked shirt and jeans”), highlighting the unseriousness of these side proposals. (16:11–16:44)

• Personal Quips & Humor

  • Extended riff on ridiculous proposals: “If Arlington Heights doesn’t work out, there’s property in Libertyville. I have a really good plan. I don’t own the land, but it’d be great for me.” (17:10–17:40)

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3. Other Sports Updates & Headlines

NBA: Michigan’s Dusty May Jumps to Mavericks

Time: 25:57–27:13

• “Huge, enormous news” as Dusty May, national champion coach at Michigan, jumps to the Dallas Mavericks—big surprise, echoing Brad Stevens’ move from college to Celtics in 2013. (26:13)
• Last college coach to take an NBA job from Michigan: John Beilein (“his ill-fated stint with Cleveland”). (26:21)
• “That’s a big money deal, man.” (27:14)

Chicago Bulls News

Time: 29:48–30:24

• Bulls extend radio deal with Odyssey. (“Just came through…that’s what I was hoping for.” 29:48)

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4. Chicago White Sox Slump – The Bernstein Jinx

Time: 41:08–43:58

• Bernstein jokes about having killed the White Sox’s season: “They’re one and five since your marquee matchup in the Bronx conversation.” (41:08)
• “Your kiss of death is still alive and well. You’ve killed the White Sox. You brought Michael Conforto back to life.” (42:03)
• Personal stories about following the Sox and being blamed for team performance.

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5. Soccer, World Cup & Cultural Oddities

Standout Performances & Local Ties

Time: 33:44–38:42

• Praise for Curacao’s 40-year-old goalie Eloy Room, who “played a blinder” (British slang for an exceptional performance), helping the team secure its first World Cup point. (34:39)
• Discussion on Cape Verde’s World Cup debut, and notable athletes with heritage there. (36:37)
• Casual banter about picking up new soccer idioms and building a following in Cape Verde and Curacao.

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Scottish Fans Take Boston by Storm

Time: 54:06–62:08

• Vivid story: Scottish fans in Boston for the World Cup have been “decorating its statues with bright orange traffic cones,” a tradition in Glasgow done to take the piss out of importance. (54:06–60:46)
• “There’s something so wonderfully absurd about it…it takes the standing away from power. That’s the point of satire.” (60:06)
• “I don’t care what they did…they get a traffic cone on their head.” (60:46)
• Suggests Chicago could use more of this irreverence for its own sports statues—Jordan, Cubs, etc.

Notable Quotes:

• “This one is particularly sort of nihilistic and genuinely funny in the way that humor is supposed to work in a functioning society.” – Dan Bernstein (62:29)

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6. Quick Picks & Closing Banter

DBU Picks (World Cup Bets)

Time: 65:04–67:39

• Dan bets with his heart, taking Scotland +1.5 goals vs Brazil: “Scotland can keep it within two…maybe they get a silly one in there.” (66:48)
• Matt’s picks: France -2.5 vs Iraq, Argentina -1 vs Austria.
• Both hosts invite listeners to try quirky bets on “Will the golden arches (McDonald’s logo) appear during the broadcast?”

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “The terms were: get your shit together.” – Matt Abbatacola (03:21)
• “They needed a complete public embarrassment before they started doing the actual work.” – Dan Bernstein (09:05)
• “The Bears have decided to engage. Finally, finally after getting the…they needed to crash and burn.” – Dan Bernstein (07:10)
• “It is astonishing…in this city where Chicago Bears have been threatening to move to Indiana for most of my adult life, this time there were people like, ‘I don’t know. I think they’re serious.’” – Dan Bernstein (12:13)
• “Nothing says serious major market business like two guys who look like they just got out of a car holding their mail…” – Dan Bernstein (16:11)
• “I love the public response — you know, so what, how important is this person? I don’t care… they get a traffic cone on their head because we want to put a traffic cone on their head.” (60:06)

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Important Segments with Timestamps

| Segment | Topic | Start | |---|---|---| | 01:44 | Bears posturing & Springfield failure | 01:44 | | 03:21 | “Get your shit together” quoted | 03:21 | | 06:10 | Politico reporting on deal progress | 06:10 | | 11:22 | Kevin Warren’s role, responsibility | 11:22 | | 16:11 | McCook comical proposal photo | 16:11 | | 25:57 | Dusty May to Mavericks (NBA) | 25:57 | | 29:48 | Bulls radio deal news | 29:48 | | 41:08 | White Sox decline & Bernstein jinx | 41:08 | | 54:06 | Scottish fans, cones on Boston statues | 54:06 | | 65:04 | Quirky DBU World Cup picks | 65:04 |

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Summary Tone & Style

• Straight-shooting, sarcastic, and often irreverent—true to Dan Bernstein’s legacy.
• Intense local focus with broader sports asides for context and comic relief.
• Equal measure civic frustration, sports fan passion, and inside-baseball political cynicism.

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For New Listeners

If you want an unfiltered update on the Bears’ stadium odyssey—how not to handle public-private sports deals, and why the next few weeks might finally bring clarity—this episode will catch you up, make you laugh, and teach you why sometimes, a traffic cone says more than a press release.

Transcript

[Dan Bernstein]

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[Dan Bernstein]

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[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

get your shit together. Happy to call the special session.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, the terms were get your shit together. We are not going to do this by the seat of our pants and try to figure everything out. If you haven't actually described in full detail and delineated what you were want to make this work. There's no promises, there's no guarantees the taxpayer money is going to be stewarded in the way that you want. But the starting point is Bears do the work, do the actual political work. And the truth is, this is what they'd been telling Kevin Warren's paid advisors had been telling Kevin Warren to do this for months now. And they hadn't been, even though all of the lobbyists and all of the experts in local, regional, state politics had explained to Kevin Warren, these are the steps. This is how it works here. This is what they're telling us. And it's like, nope, nope, nope, watch me, watch me. In this press conference and this announcement. And it was all silly games that had the bear say, yes, we're going to walk into the swamp of human waste. And it was like, no, you're not. So stop saying that. And there's no.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

We really are.

[Dan Bernstein]

We really. We're going to take this entire organization and we are going to go to the slag heap and we're going to stand in the human waste. Okay, if you want to do that, go ahead. And meanwhile, in Illinois, there are the we. What this did was it brought out all of the clowns and grifters and mimes and dancers and everybody with their various stadium stunts because that was happening over the weekend, too. We got you two more sites that were brought into this because they understand that silliness and the weakness and the lack of any planning lets all of these various mayors and city council people put their proposals out there to get their name out there because they know it's going to get coverage. But yeah, because where.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Where they going now? McCook, right.

[Dan Bernstein]

Did you see those two guys and the picture they took?

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Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Did you see the picture.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

And we're going to the Bears. I mean it's well that they talk about some PR stuff. We're going to get to that because that, that picture was just hilarious and it shows you how far this entire process has sunk. But here's the good news. This was published just a couple hours ago in Politico. It's Shia Kappos. And what she reports is this. After weeks of public posturing, the conversation is moving again. Discussions between the Bears and Illinois officials are continuing behind the scenes with some expecting greater clarity as soon as Wednesday. The Bears are even working on legislation that could keep them in Illinois. That's something Governor J.B. pritzker emphasized last week. There would be no special legislative session addressing the Bears without a deal in place. So keep this in mind. If they call a special session, it's done. This is a pro forma ratification. After the vote count has been taken, the deal is agreed to here. She then notes in a couple places, message received. Rather than waiting for lawmakers to craft a solution, the team has been asked to identify precisely what legislative language it wants. According to a person close to the discussions, drafting work is underway. This is a light at the end of a long tunnel if they're actually drafting legislation because the Bears have decided to engage. Finally, finally after getting the. They needed to crash and burn. They needed the entire thing to collapse in Kevin Warren's lap before they actually started doing the work. And they needed a complete public embarrassment before they started doing the actual work that they should have been doing months ago. But it took this kind of failure in front of Everybody with every 11th hour attempt. And no Bears there in Springfield. Remember, they couldn't be bothered. They weren't even there. They didn't send a single material representative. They found an upper middle level functionary to stand at the bottom of the staircase and not engage in any meetings and not do any of this stuff. So here's where we are. After they had to be publicly embarrassed, almost talked to paternally by Pritzker, talked to condescendingly like he was talking to children. Hey, you know what would be a good idea? If you actually had meetings where you talked to people instead of sending out statements and trying to use stupid people in the media who are easy marks to try to advance your bluffing. How about you actually in good faith, George, Kevin, sit down, talk. Figure this out. And I think it finally got through whatever thick skulls at Hallis hall had needed to hear. Wait, oh, oh, we can just talk to you and try to work on this. So this is Cam Buckner who said the following. Cam Buckner, who has been sort of one of the point people involved in the House, he said you don't call a special session to draw up a flight plan. You call a special session to land the plane. So if he's using that metaphor already, and if they are drafting legislative language and if they're expecting greater clarity as soon as Wednesday, that means that finally, after the Bears built up all of their efforts into the spring session and they played all the brinksmanship, except for the part where they actually showed up, except where they actually did stuff, and now they realize, oh, we have to do things. We have to actually come to the people who are willing to try to find some compromise regarding public money to build on the land we already own. We have to do the work. Oh, okay. Well, it's finally happening.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

So two notes on this, Dan, that one thing is when this happens and the special, the special session is called and they advance it forward and, and they. Then they're gonna put plans in place to build in Arlington Heights like they've always wanted to. It's unfortunate, I'm going to say it's unfortunate already well in advance that Kevin Ward will be involved in any of this.

[Dan Bernstein]

He should have been fired when this failed. Correct? He should have been.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

But he'll be there front and center when the claiming victory. Yes, claiming victory. And it's very unfortunate.

[Dan Bernstein]

While he's, while he's looking to move on to his next job.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

I'm sure the second point that is really unfortunate is the Bears last statement that the board came together and voted and we're moving all of our attention towards Hammond.

[Dan Bernstein]

It was a lie.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It was a complete lie.

[Dan Bernstein]

And we knew, we knew it was later, right?

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

We, when they said it, because everybody,

[Dan Bernstein]

Kim Buckner, all these people said yes, well, Kevin Warren and the Bears just called me to say they're looking forward to working with me. They. They exposed their own lie in minutes after they, they released the statement.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Right. And it's just unfortunate that this is the ownership of an NFL franchise.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's so bad, it's so poorly done. They're in so far over their heads that they needed the crash and burn before they did any of the work. It's unbelievable. And yet, and yet what is. It is astonishing to me that in this city where the Chicago Bears have been threatening to move to Indiana for most of my adult life this time there were people like, I don't know. I think they're serious. I think they're moving. I mean, just this. The amount of the gullibility of people whose very job it is to know better. The bears targeted the saps that they know who's an easy mark. They can sniff it out. And they make those phone calls like, hey, dad, we're going to Indiana. We're going to Indiana. You are. I'm going to tell everybody that it is. It's incredible to me. So here is actual finally some reporting that they got the message. Like, oh, yeah, why don't you engage in the process a little bit? Because the governor's like, I'm here. You never told. What. What do you need? What do you want? Well, let's talk. Come other sports owners in this town call the governor and say, you want to have a sandwich? And the governor's, of course I wanted to have a sandwich.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Look at me.

[Guest or occasional contributor]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

So they sit down and they talk and they negotiate and things. They do business. It's just doing normal business. So here we are. But what the weekend allowed was absolutely hysterical. I am still laughing at the picture of These guys from McCook, everyone. Every once in a while. The name, you know, that we hear about McCook and McCook is. It's sort of Chicago's version of Hammond because it's all. It's. It smells bad and there's all kinds of. I don't know, there's like power lines and. Is there. I don't even know what else is there. I just know it's something that you usually drive by or drive through and. Or around and you're not even aware that you're there.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

But.

[Dan Bernstein]

But it is a municipality of some kind. It has nominal leadership. And they decided that they were going to take a picture of their delivery of their proposal to the Bears. What?

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Nothing. It's great.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, and they got the local paper to do it. This happened on Friday. This was the Des Plaines Valley News. It calls itself a household name in the southwest suburbs since 1913. Maybe it started when Stuart's coffee started. It's perfect. Yeah, maybe the Des Plaines Valley News editor sat down with a hot and steaming pot of Stewart's coffee and made

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

a little bit of news.

[Guest or occasional contributor]

So

[Dan Bernstein]

they're people representing McCook and this is what happens when you screw everything up and everything catches on fire publicly in front of everyone and you get embarrassed to a point where you should be fired. What that does is it invites things like this. Wait a second. Well, it's not a done deal. And then you have the one guy writing a letter about the South Shore site. That was the U.S. steel company and the plant there. And they float that. But here is a picture of McCook clerk Ken Lyons and Mayor Terrence Carr. And Ken Lyons, is he. For some reason they told him to dress like a zookeeper. I don't. I'm not sure why you would think if you are going to deliver, hand deliver your letter to the bears, you. You don't want to like, be there, what you slept in.

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But.

[Dan Bernstein]

So he's. He's holding a manila envelope in his left hand. And then there's the mayor who wore his. His best untucked shirt and jeans. That's. That's the fancy stuff from McCook. That's his. That. That's a. That's a humdinger of a suit right there. He's. He's going out of the town. So he's got his best untucked shirt and he's holding a manila envelope in his right hand. And they're standing by the sign that says Bears 1920 Football Drive with an arrow that is actually pointing directly at the guy, at the mayor of McCoy. So here you go. Here's your. Here you come. Your big stadium plans. Nothing says serious major market business like two guys that look like they are. They look like two guys who just got out of a car holding their mail and they're taking a picture to show the seriousness.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Well, if Arlington Heights doesn't work out and Hammond doesn't work out and McCook doesn't work out, there's some property here in Libertyville, Dan. It's called Independence Grove. I actually have a.

[Dan Bernstein]

You're not touching Independence Grove.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

I have a proposal to build on top of Independence Grove. Now, I don't own the land, but I have a really good plan to build a new stadium there. And I think it's big enough. It's close to my house. It would be great for me to never go to a game still. But I think. I think, yeah, if I'm going to put my plan together, post a picture

[Dan Bernstein]

online of my plans of you standing outside Independence Grove.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah. Not with a manila envelope. Maybe a manila folder.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, well, that's your.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Maybe a binder. Maybe a binder. Looks more impressive.

[Dan Bernstein]

A Trapper Keeper.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

And I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Sport coat, no shirt underneath.

[Dan Bernstein]

Shorts and shorts and flip flops. Cargo shorts, sport coat, no shirt, flip flops.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Baseball, sunglasses, gold chain, Manila binder, big binder, do rag. No, I don't think I could pull that off.

[Dan Bernstein]

Bandana?

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

No. Maybe just a cap backwards. Cap.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Binder in one hand and a non alcoholic beer in the other.

[Dan Bernstein]

Just, just stay away from Independence Grove.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

I don't, I don't.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't like your, your plan here. Just one time, I want to fish in that bay where they don't let you fish. One time.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Well, do it when it's dark.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, you can get arrested.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It's.

[Dan Bernstein]

It closes when it's dark.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

You won't get arrested. You're Dan Bernstein, damn it.

[Dan Bernstein]

Just ninja fisherman. Just, Just one time I want to get in there. I want to get in that one lobe where they don't. Because you got to go under the bridge. And I fish. I've stood under the bridge and I've kind of cast into there before into the illegal area and I've. And I've been very successful. But I don't, I don't want to kind of. I want to just go in there right by the docks where there's, there's bass the size of gunboats.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Maybe we can. That can be our new YouTube channel. Like illegal fishing spots.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, there are guys who do that. They're too late.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

I'm sure they're too late. Weirdos.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, they're already weirdos. Like fishing cemeteries and you know, those stocked corporate ponds with the fountains in them on, you know, either side of like Milwaukee Avenue. All those giant mirrored buildings off of 294 that. And people go out and like hand feed the bluegill bread crumbs and guys go, look. Look at me fishing. I'm so good at this. Okay, you're fishing in a bathtub. Well, congratulations. But here we. This is. This. It may just be. It may just be that we are coming to an end of our long civic and statewide nightmare.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah, because remember, the bear said that they, they expect to have something done. Maybe late spring, early summer. And I think we're in. Yesterday was the first, first day of summer.

[Dan Bernstein]

So here we are.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Here we are in early summer, Dan.

[Dan Bernstein]

We are in happy, happy early summer. And the news is, according to Politico today, that as. Even though they're our entire focus, our board, our board made up of all of these various adult brained. McCaskey. It's the board meeting. We now convene the board. They have. We've turned our attention to Indiana. Except we're lying. Oh, did I say that out loud? Oh, sorry, sorry. I shouldn't have said that. We were lying while we were also talking to the governor and everybody else because we own all this land that we want to build on. I mean, it's just. It's so stupid. It's so preposterous. It's so dumb and so many people involved are really, really, really dumb. And I. I guess that's why the Bears thought they could get away with what they wanted to do here. So onward we go. First Chapter when you hear that they've called a special session, that means the deal is in place. That means they've drawn it up. That means they have counted the votes. They have said, here's what you get. Here's what you get. Here's what you get. There is the wedding of beaks and the earmarking of funds and whatever legal payoffs and, and hoops and all that have to be jumped through, if that is even a metaphor at this point, that I can end with a preposition. I have a vivid memory of sitting down with my wife right after we bought our first house and talking about having another kid and what our lives were going to be like and realizing we needed a plan for life insurance for both of us. How could we make sure things were taken care of for the kids if either one of us got hit by a bus or something? And how those numbers could still add up? Well, we found policies that fit. I'm glad we did it and now each other Ethos can help you do the same. Ethos makes getting life insurance fast and easy. It's 100% online, a quote in seconds. Apply in minutes and same day coverage. No medical exam. You just answer a few simple health questions and you can get up to $3 million in coverage. With some policies as low as $30 a month, you'll get the lowest rate from their network of trusted carriers. Take 10 minutes. Get covered today with life insurance through Ethos. Get your free [e-mail] dbu that's e t h o s.com dbu Application times may vary. Rates may vary. On July 5, the Chicago Stars return to Evanston vs Utah Royals FC the Chicago Stars celebrating a summer of soccer on the north side and you don't want to miss it. With an easy to get to stadium and tickets starting at $19, pro women's soccer is never been more accessible. Come to a match for family friendly pre match entertainment. Then cheer on US Olympians like Mallory Swanson and Alyssa Nayer playing right on the lakefront in Evanston. Summer soccer doesn't get much better than this. Get your Tickets [e-mail] Tickets did you know that you can double your money if the golden arches show up during Thursday night's USA game. You heard me right. You can only bet this one at my bookie. That is the next lock of the season. No lineups, no tactics. You don't even need to know soccer. Just watch the broadcast. You can even stream the broadcast at my bookie. Will the golden arches, the McDonald's logo appear at any point on screen? That's the bet. Come on. It's a World cup broadcast. It's one of the most recognizable logos on earth. Use the code DBU right now to grab your deposit bonus. DBU at MyBookie. That's your code. When you register and make your deposit, you get a deposit bonus and get up to $500 in protection on your first bet at MyBookie. Don't wait until you see it on screen because if then it's too late. So you have to do this now if you want the lock of the season. Just betting on will the McDonald's logo appear at any point on the screen? The lock of the season is only at my bookie. It also so happens that we've got some major developing news in the NBA and college basketball. I mean this is it. Really enormous. No joke. Michigan coach Dusty May is going to take the Dallas Mavericks head coaching job. So it's happening again. This is the last time I can remember something like this. It was Brad Stevens to the Celtics with, with this kind of wait, what? Who's doing what? And Yup, Dusty May, 49 years old, national champion. The reigning national champion coach is now going to cast his lot with Cooper flag. And this was after Jason Kidd and The Mavs went 26 and 56. This is according to the ESPN reporting. And they brought out three big guns for this one. And Pete Thammel, Adam Schefter and Sean Sharania. Dusty May led Michigan to a record of 64 and 13 in his two years. He had led Florida Atlantic to back to back NCAA tournaments in the 2023 Final Four. He said this year when asked multiple times if he was looking at other jobs in college, he had completely ruled them out. Can you name. Do you know the last college head coach to take an NBA job? Do, do, do. It was also from Michigan. It was John Beeline and his ill fated stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers that started in 2019.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yikes. Oh yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Remember that?

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

That was forgettable. That was.

[Dan Bernstein]

And you think, oh, Michigan cook. I should have remembered that. It was the same damn school.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Wow.

[Dan Bernstein]

But yeah, it was John Beeline. The last to immediately leave college after winning a national title. Larry Brown, when He won the with Danny Manning in 88 and he knew well, that's it for that. Okay. That is if Larry was nothing, if not practical and our guy Billy Donovan was the most recent NCAA title winning coach to leave for the NBA when he did that in 2015.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

And if I'm not. See if I correct here.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Let me just double check. Says Mavericks have the number nine pick.

[Dan Bernstein]

I think that's.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah, they're a top ten pick. Yep, that's it. Number nine. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

So I mean there's, there's more good players coming, there's more chances for them and you know that you've got Cooper flag there.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

So it's a good start.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's going to be a big money deal, man. That's going to be a huge number that he got and he is, he's considered by, you know, by coaches tactically very, very strong and he's, he is not afraid to take risks. I don't know that he's ever really worked with the idea of putting an NBA roster together. But you got to make that jump sometime if that's your goal. If you got that chance. Boy, the, the Michigan Wolverines as springboard to NBA possibilities and it kind of sets us up for the what we're looking at some potential headlines out of the draft tomorrow night. You know, organizations win championships is going to be covering everything for you. We are looking forward to being at the Advocate center following what the bulls do at 4 and 15 tomorrow night. But it's, it's the trades that are in here as well is what could happen. It was Giannis going to move are they're going to be teams that look at this arbitrary deadline or opportunity when people are on the phone. Trades happen on draft night. Trades that don't necessarily have anything to do with the draft itself tend to happen on draft night. We also know that the Bulls roster is up for grabs. It's in complete flux. They're not going to come tell us hey, we don't think that highly of Josh Giddy or we, we, you know, Modest Bouz Ellis was the other guy's guy and he' not our guy. And we're going to say nice things and then we're going to move him. You don't know you, you can't go by what they say. You have to go by what they do. And what they do is really going to tell us about where they want to go. But that that news today is, is really Dusty May up and leaving and they brought. They had Elliot Kado petition Petitioning to come back. I think now, as far as the NCAA goes, or whoever is in charge of making the rules in college, all those guys can, can go elsewhere if they want. I'm pretty sure when a coach decides, you've got a window where they're able to bail if they want. So we'll see.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

I think that's correct. Unless we're both very wrong on that. Yeah. Once your coach leaves, you have the chance to, to leave as well.

[Dan Bernstein]

I mean, anybody can kind of leave at any point now, but there is a specific window that opens up that lets you do that, so.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah. The Bulls actually just announced, too, an extension on their radio deal with Odyssey to keep their game broadcast there. Just came through. That's what I was hoping for.

[Dan Bernstein]

No breaking news. We can, we'll never stop eating. Rim should stop doing that.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

No. Your teeth.

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[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

We're going.

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[Dan Bernstein]

It's not, it's not proven by science. I conditionally believe in it. All right. Congratulations.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Thank you.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, thanks.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

That's all I wanted. I just wanted.

[Dan Bernstein]

You just want a little.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

That's why I shared that.

[Dan Bernstein]

A little gratuitous.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

That was like, like when he does the whoop, like, why does he always bounce up? Like, what happens? He gets poked somewhere.

[Dan Bernstein]

I, I, I don't know. Eating big time rim. Zach Levine, Mile high rib eating. I'm not even making this up. This is all real Daniel Tice eating room in Beantown. It's a great place. Yeah, we're gonna get to Beantown a little bit later. There's some stuff happening there that I think is just spectacular. So I, I absolutely will get. I also have some, some eyewitness reports. Some, some family members of mine made a trip out to Boston to see some soccer. It had.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Oh, really? Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

It had various interactions with, with the Scottish fans.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It's one of the, one of the best storylines of the World Cup.

[Dan Bernstein]

They've taken over that city in a way that should leave a lasting legacy. It's like, I mean, it's like I'm trying to think of an example of, I don't know, the Moors sweeping through southern Italy or, you know, somebody like, one of these long, like, eras of occupation of a country. This is going to be two weeks and it could change their culture forever because it's just, they're that powerful. So is, by the way, Russ Armstrong, you know, that he is, he's, he's so powerful. What he can do, he can walk. This is the power of Russ Armstrong in Chicago. Window, guys. He can walk into Your home. He has to be invited, by the way. It's like a vampire. He's not allowed in unless you invite him. So, you know, Russ comes over and he'll walk into your home and then he can just intuit what windows need replacing with what kind of custom made windows from his factory. And he can just sort of feel everything and he can, he can then give you a number and a timetable of what it's going to cost, how long it's going to take, what you're going to have to do. It's amazing. He doesn't have to take up four hours of your time. He doesn't have to give you a PowerPoint presentation. He doesn't have to leave you with stacks and stacks of things to go through. You can just talk windows with him and you can say, hey, you know, this other company was out here and they quoted this price and this buy one, get one free. But Russ has got a guarantee he's going to match any price and he's going to explain why you're not going to fall for the gimmick deals. He's just going to give you the best product with the best price. And ask if you're shopping around, ask these other places who's installing my windows. They won't know. They'll say, oh, it'll be whoever our installer is. Okay, well those are, are they day laborers? Is it a third party company? With Russ, it's all his people. So you get that peace of mind because he's not using subcontracted labor and he owns the factory. So he's gonna write everything down that you want. Okay, okay. Okay. And he'll say it, I gotta go make the windows for you. And he does. And then they install them and then you're happy like I am. That's why I recommend Russ to everybody. 847-302-9171 and check out his five star [e-mail] did you watch World cup over the weekend?

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah, a little bit. Between my baseball games and doing family stuff.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, yeah, that. Who, whoever the goalie is for that Curacao team. That dude, my God. I, he's like 40 years old and he was standing on the head. I don't even know the idiom. I know in hockey they say standing on head. I, I had the game on and I've been enjoying watching the games. I'm reading all this stuff about how awful Alexi Lalas is and I wouldn't know because I watch Intellamundo. It does. I know. I don't really know a lot of what's going on anyway. I just like it. I like the whole vibe of Telemundo.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah. We were on for sushi the other day on Saturday, and the Carousel game was on one of their big screens at Shaku in Libertyville. And it was the Carousel game. Yeah. On Telemundo. So, yeah, we watched a little bit of that. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

And the goalie's name is Eloy Room. Eloy Room. Which I realized anagrams to more YOLO. And that's how he was playing because he made 15 saves. He was standing on head. He was diving for things and punching things away, and he kept them in the game even though they didn't have the ball all that much. So if you remember, it was on. And I brought this up last week, that it was a couple of Friday feedback Fridays ago when we were told root for Curacao, they had never gotten a point before in World cup play. And the name of their head coach, Dick Advocate. He is. He's Dick Advocate, which we all should have. I really think. I think we'd all be better off if we each employed our own Dick Advocate just to have in your corner with you. Maybe the Bears should have done that, too and had that guy with him all the time to be able to help them through the political and legislative process. But congratulations to coach Dick Advocate. He is now a Kurosawan, Kurasawian legend for having booked that first point.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It is.

[Dan Bernstein]

It is.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It is.

[Dan Bernstein]

There it is. Official. The historic tie got them a World cup point, and I enjoyed watching the game. I like watching their goalie. They. They play super aggressively on defense there. They play a rugged brand of football, Those. Those lads. But we'll. We'll keep an eye on them. I know you're a Cape Verde guy.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah, I mean, they. They adopted them. They got to a draw with Spain and a draw with Uruguay. So their first World cup ever. You know, some notable athletes from the. From Cape Verde or came or claim Cape Verde heritage. Tony Gonzalez of the NFL.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

And Marvin Hagler, the boxer.

[Dan Bernstein]

Really?

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yes. Island nation of Cape Verde, just off of the Africa coast. I found a. I found a soccer idiom for you here, buddy. This is a British. British slang.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

For a goalie, like standing on head. They say play a blinder. Playing a blinder. It's a British idiom for a soccer goalie playing with outstanding, dazzling, exceptional display of skill.

[Dan Bernstein]

Playing a blinder.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yep.

[Dan Bernstein]

So how do you Say it like he, he played a blinder.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Sure, that sounds like it works for me. Or he's playing a blind, he's playing

[Dan Bernstein]

a blinder out there.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yep.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, I'll have to get my head around that a little bit. I thought it was going to be something I had at least heard before.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Here's, here's an example for you, actually. He completely dominated the midfield and played a blinder in yesterday's cup final.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, so it's not just goalies.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Correct.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, I see goalie. No, I need to goalie. I need something goalie specific.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Oh, come on. That sounds really, it sounds like you really know football then, if you can use that term properly. Okay. The Brits who listen to this show are going to be really impressed. If you can use.

[Dan Bernstein]

I haven't looked at where we stand on, on the British charts. I haven't looked at that. I know. Forward progress every once in a while will bubble up in some country where we just find a kind of, find a fandom.

[Guest or occasional contributor]

The.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

I, we're, yeah, we're building in Carousel and Cape Verde now. I know.

[Dan Bernstein]

Good, sure, good. Because we need, we need all the listenership in those countries that we can get.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

We're the goalie. The goalie. Carousel played a blinder on Saturday.

[Dan Bernstein]

He did. I, I, that's first thing I said if you remember. I texted you, I texted you, I said, I, I said Eloy room is playing a blinder out there.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

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[Dan Bernstein]

Start your free [e-mail] I'm sorry to the White Sox. I, I, I didn't mean anything by it. I, but I apparently have killed White Sox baseball.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah, they're one in five since your marquee matchup in the Bronx conversation, you know.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I thought I said, look, the, the socks are playing well. They, they're in first place. I was highlighting the number of players among the leagues or the baseball's war leaders, looking at Montgomery and Vargas and everybody else and the Yang and all the number of Yankees and I just said, look, this is so the series went badly for them. They got, they got outscored in an avalanche. They did get the Andrew Benetendi pinch hit grand slam victory and that, that was it because then they went to Detroit and couldn't hold a lead and everything. Things are falling in center field and Tristan Peters can't get to. He's among the war leaders too. He's been great. But I, I, I think I, I think I went and did it again.

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[Dan Bernstein]

I did it again.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah. Your kiss of death is still alive and well.

[Dan Bernstein]

We know the kiss of life is alive and well. I know if I say somebody sucks and somebody's doomed like Conforto, although that's

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

wearing off and we don't know how long it lasts, but it certainly, it certainly did Take a few effect. And you. So you've killed the White Sox. You brought Michael Conforto back to life. He was once Babe Conforto. Now he's back to being Mike Conforto. He's not even Michael anymore.

[Dan Bernstein]

He was never Mike. Mike.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Oh, no, he's Mike now.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, you put Mike on him.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Okay. Yeah. So he went from Babe to back to Michael. Now he's Mike Conforto. Eventually it'll just be M. Conforto. And then eventually It'll just be DF8 Conforto, but he's not there yet.

[Dan Bernstein]

And then it'll be on with something else in his life Conforto.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Right. Then they'll be like, they'll add another Justin Deans, another 30 year old.

[Dan Bernstein]

Who's that guy? Where did he come from? And what does he do?

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

He's had like 2500 minor league games, and this was his first major league game at 29. And then he gets his first hits and.

[Dan Bernstein]

Cool.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It's a neat story for Justin Deans. I think it's Justin. Is it Justin Deans, right?

[Dan Bernstein]

I think it's Justin Dean. And yeah, so he gets. He got his first major league hit and everybody goes like this and they go get the ball like they did for Ian haps one 1000th hit last week. You know, you want to make sure you can get that, that, that ball and always have that. And okay, great.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

People that were, you know, talk more white socks. Now it's stop talking White Sox. Bernstein, shut your mouth. Talk more socks. Don't talk socks.

[Dan Bernstein]

I watched them. I. I watched it happen. I had them on. I was. I was flipping. Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

You even, like, after our, you know, marquee matchup in the Bronx conversation, I. I tuned in. I put the Sox game on my television. My wife walked in and she said, why are you watching the White Sox? I said, oh, it's a. It's a big series. You got eight guys in the. You know, among the war leaders here. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

I was listening to DBU the other day, and that's what we said.

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[Dan Bernstein]

So I get all my sports dots are an A. Yeah, I was. It was nice. I. I was flipping channels. And like I say on Saturday, I don't know why this happened. I woke up late. I slept in, and I said, you know what I'm gonna do? I am gonna clean out all my clothes.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

What time did you get up on Saturday? What's sleeping in for you?

[Dan Bernstein]

Noon.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

No.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

What time did you go to bed?

[Dan Bernstein]

One.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Till noon.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, I got up I was up from like 6 to 7 and then I fell back to sleep again.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

And you stayed in bed though, from six to seven?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I stayed in bed. I was up. I just, you know, I, I got, you know, a little. We got on my phone, I got some stuff out of the way and returned some emails, whatever it is, and then fell asleep again. It was perfect.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

I mean, for me to sleep till noon, I'd have to go to bed

[Dan Bernstein]

at 6am well, but she said, Beth came in, she's like, you realize it's noon, you probably want to get up. I'm like, oh, holy.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It is. That's crazy.

[Dan Bernstein]

It is. And so it was, it was great for me. And then the next Sunday morning I got up the same thing. Woke up at 6 and went fishing. Because I was up. I said, I'm not gonna sit around here and fall back. So. And I, and I looked at the weather and they said the rain is going to be here around 1 o'.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Clock.

[Dan Bernstein]

Very often the best time to fish is immediately before a rain. And it was a great time. I went and I walked the river and caught a bunch of bass and it's awesome. There were a lot of people out walking in, in Horner park on the nature trails and on the other side, a lot of dads and their kids and people just sort of out on it. It was a lot of people kayaking, taking the electric boats up and down the river.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Well, that's lovely. I Woke up at 5:45 on Saturday and then we were in pleasant prairie

[Dan Bernstein]

at 7 for baseball. Did you go to the Culver's?

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

No, he selected the McDonald's right next door and stuff.

[Dan Bernstein]

Been there too. They got a lot of my money there too.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah. So there's Culver's, McDonald's and then the gas station, the BP. So it's a, it's a great little trifecta of needs.

[Dan Bernstein]

Pretty much all you need is right there.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yep.

[Dan Bernstein]

I, I think you can fish that lake near Pleasant, perhaps the cooling lake. Right. Because there's the, the nuclear plant there. And the whole Pleasant Prairie Athletic center was kind of a, a make good. It's like, hey, we're gonna build a nuclear facility here. And people like, oh, what are you gonna do for us? How about this athletic facility? That's everything.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah, we, we played it because it's 13 you there. We played on the dirt fields. The other two dirt infield fields at the front of the complex in the back is where the turf infield ones are now. Still have grass outfields but yeah, so we were on the, we haven't played on a dirt dirt infield all year.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. That's real American baseball there.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It's very dusty.

[Dan Bernstein]

It is, yeah. And then they get in the car and then you. That dirt. I'm. There's still dirt like baseball dirt that I'll find in the house and like little tiny pile where a shoe was.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah, no, he was sitting in the front seat hitting his legs. So all the dust was coming off into the car. I'm like, dude, he's like, watch what happens.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, I know what happens.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Like, we're good, man.

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[Dan Bernstein]

There's dirt on your spikes and then you hit it in the car, the dirt comes off.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Nice science project you got going there, kid. Very well done. I can prove that this causes that outstanding.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yep.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh yeah. So socks. I don't know what to say man. But, but I'm sorry. So let me just advise the whole thing with the clothes. Like. So when we, 20 years ago, whatever was. We bought the house and I had a dear friend told me you got your, your walk in closet there that you, you think you and Beth are splitting it. But no, any open space, she's, it's, it's going to gravitate like water finds its level. All of her stuff is going to gradually take over your stuff. And I said, well, I don't know. And it's true. That's what happened.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah. I mean closet space is 80, 20 on a generous mark. 9010 is more realistic. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

So. But I, I, I went through mine. I went through even like the old dresser that on the, on the other side of the room. I went through everything and I made three piles. I made the throw out pile, I made the donate pile and I made the keep pile and I ended up with the tiniest, tiniest little thing. Like there's, I barely have any clothes. I have like four T shirts and I've got like, I, I barely own anything because I, I threw out.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

That's really interesting that you would actually remove things you're keeping just to put back.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Normally you keep the things there.

[Dan Bernstein]

No.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

No closet or.

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[Dan Bernstein]

Because now I could. No, it's not weird because I had things that weren't in George. The drawers were taken up with shit. So if I throw everything out from the drawers, I can then demote other things that can stay in the drawers. I had everything had to be redone. Okay. So I just made it easier that way.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

I get it.

[Dan Bernstein]

I just made it easier. And then the donations Are great for tax purposes. And you know, you get the receipt, you do the thing you can make. You save a lot of money in taxes if you do that. And it was a full day.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

It was a. Because you can, you know, depending on your accountant, you can.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Oh, no. Oh, no, no. I get it. But it's not like you're putting like, I donated $10,000 worth of clothes. I mean, what did you do? 100 or two.

[Dan Bernstein]

I ended up, if retail, you, you submit the actual retail value of the clothes, and then your accountant will take a yours.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It's probably $6 and 75 cents.

[Dan Bernstein]

Like, right. Free stuff. I threw out a lot of that. But there's other things. If you haven't worn it in a long time, get rid of it. Right.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Hi, Mr. Accountant. I donated clothes this weekend. How much was it, dan? A buck 75.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, we can take 20% of that.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Oh, so did you donate one thing? Oh, no, no. That was hundreds.

[Dan Bernstein]

That was all. That was it. That was. I, I threw out three whole 30 gallon lawn bags.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

No way of clothes. Yeah. I don't, I don't believe you. There's no chance you have that many clothes. Oh, no way.

[Dan Bernstein]

I had so many. Think about how many of my T shirts said Score or Odyssey or Infinity.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

You threw those away?

[Dan Bernstein]

All of them gone. I saved one. I saved one Score shirt. Do you know which one? I saved one. Everything else in the garbage.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Which score shirt would you have saved? I have no idea.

[Dan Bernstein]

Do you remember the light blue? Nice, like textured, sort of Hawaiian shirt. Borz and Bernstein. Who needs two Tavern tour shirts? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

That's the one you kept.

[Dan Bernstein]

I kept that one just because it says Boars and Bernstein on it. And that's, that's special to me.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

But like all the other stuff, I, I, I've kept two. I have two. I have two things. I have a. Remember the gray T shirt with the white and black logo? It was a circle one with like hockey sticks through it.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

So I have that one. And then I have the green zip up long sleeve little like lightweight cotton zip up thing that we did for one of the St. Patrick's Day parades.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It's green. It says the score on white across the chest. That's the only thing I've. It's only. Those are two things I have. Oh, and I have, I have a ton of the. A toast to Terry Glasses. Remember those glasses we had? I do.

[Dan Bernstein]

They're good glasses.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

I will say, though, if, if you do shop at the Mount Sinai Hospital resale store on Clark street.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

You'll find Dan Bernstein items.

[Dan Bernstein]

You might get a really good price. The one kind of nice thing I'm like, I, I just, I gave away were those Cubs score. Cubs radio World Series champion quarter zips.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Oh yeah. Oh, I still have that one too. I have that. I have that also.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I donated it so you could. You probably go get a nice price on a limited item there.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

But it felt, it felt so good and it. Beth got so mad at me.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

I can't believe you give away three 30 gallon bags of clothes.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, no, those are garbage. Those I threw out.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Oh, that was throw out. Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I. The only. I brought three of the kitchen size garbage. Right. It was like 20 $100 worth retail value. That I don't.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

And then that's a, that's the lead of the show right there that you owned 2100 worth of clothes like old

[Dan Bernstein]

dress pants, sport coats, stuff like that that, you know. So it just, it's so liberating. And there's all this space in the closet right now. And Beth came upstairs, she's like, oh. I said, nope.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

What are you gonna replace it with clothes?

[Dan Bernstein]

No, I just want to. I just want to look at the empty space.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Well, it's not going to be.

[Dan Bernstein]

No. And then what? I told her ice, because she has it right now.

[Guest or occasional contributor]

No.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yes, she is.

[Dan Bernstein]

She. I said, after you clean your side, if, then there is spillover. But I said, you don't get to move anything. And I said to her, what, what J.B. pritzker said to Kevin Warren.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Get your shit together.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Right.

[Dan Bernstein]

Take care of all of this, whatever that is. I don't.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

After, after she made your frozen pot pie and then you told her to go clean her coffee closet and you put a cigarette on her arm. Right.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm telling you. But if she, when she gets done with her clutch, there's going to be several complete immigrant families living in there. When she gets like, I, I have no clue what's going on over there. There's going to be. Right. But there's gonna be like full societies, advanced societies that have already, they've existed there for so long, they've already made technological advancements that we can only imagine we're going to discover. It's like the opposite of discovering ancient societies that we're going to go through there and we're going to. We may find that diseases have been cured because people have been living somewhere in their classes. Futuristic society. Yes. They've got, they've like cars that can fly, and they've cured most diseases. Time travel is all taking place in the back of Beth's side of the closet.

[Ad Read Announcer 2]

Wow.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It's a big closet. Yeah, it is.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's. It's. It's really cool. So some friends and family went to Boston to go take in some of the soccer there. I was hearing about this last night, and they said that obviously the story was the Scottish fans, and they had everybody on there that had cell phone recordings or phone recordings of the singing of the Scottish anthem.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Which was just incredible. I mean, just. Just the, The. The. The force and the earnestness with which it's sung and the pride with which it's sung. It's just so impressive. And every single story about running into the Scottish fans. I'm gonna. I'm gonna bring you my favorite story yet. Okay. I want to bring you my favorite story yet. And I think it is something that this country would be really well served to do. This is from the BBC. Described as the birthplace of the American Revolution, Boston's streets are teeming with monuments and landmarks that tell the story of the nation's history. And now they're experiencing something of a makeover. Scotland fans visiting the city for the World cup have been decorating its statues with bright orange traffic cones. Yes, I love this much to the bemusement of locals, the practice is familiar to anyone from Glasgow, where the Duke of Wellington statue at the Gallery of Modern Art has been wearing a cone at a jaunty angle since the 1980s. It's a mischievous visual ingrained in Glasgow's identity and was even a source of inspiration for the graffiti artist Banksy. And with an estimated 20 to 30,000 Scotland fans traveling to Boston for the opening match against Haiti, it says anticipation of the second match against Morocco was building. And the conical pranks are an indication of high spirits. The Arms of Friendship statue at the Charlestown Navy Yard received the traffic cone treatment. And the artwork features a 36 foot long bronze octopus holding up a number of the world's endangered animals, including an elephant and a gorilla. And the elephant's got a traffic cone on his head. The gorilla has a traffic cone on his head. They are then showing Boston Common park, and the various statues there all have traffic cones on their heads, they said. There's a statue of the beloved former mayor of Boston, Kevin White, not the former Bears wide receiver, said The Democrats serve four terms, 68 to 84, at a tumultuous time of racial conflict in the city. And there was debate about whether the ten Foot statue was tall enough when it was installed. Well, regardless, it is now sporting a traffic cone. Also the Bill Russell statue at City Hall Plaza, traffic cone. And you're wondering why? Why are they doing this? Boston authorities have started to remove the traffic cones from statues, but fans are keeping the momentum going. They also spoke to a couple of fans who are wearing traffic cones on their heads. There are a lot of fans that are wearing them at the. They started wearing them at the Euros because it's a Glaswegian gesture. People from Glasgow say that's how you know. So you're going to see it more here because there's so many statues. Where does it come from? Why, why are they doing this? This is the best. So the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, beat Napoleon at Waterloo, became prime minister. So the statue of the Duke on his horse, Copenhagen is the name of his horse, was sculpted and erected in 1844 in Glasgow. And late night revelers in the 1980s apparently put a traffic cone on there and it just became a thing. There's no real reason for it. So the city council said that it's vandalism. They warn of criminal charges, but everybody kept doing it. And any attempts to free the Duke of his plastic hat have always been quickly thwarted with a cone replaced within days. They put one on the duke and they put one on his horse. And now images of that cone topped statue are used to promote Glasgow and they're featured on posters, coasters and key rings. Banksy called it his favorite work of art in the uk. And the news of the traffic cones in Boston had made its way back to the streets of Glasgow. And she said, it's fun, it shows people are friendly. I think Americans are loving it. And it spreads so quickly on social media. It's now recognizably Scottish. And this is, I now know that this is a Scottish thing. And can I tell you why, why I love the tradition because to use a, a British phrase, it takes the piss out of importance. It takes something. If you, this person, you must know this person here is a statue. You must be aware of what this. And regardless of whether it's a war hero or a political figure or a sports figure, I love the public response. You don't, you know, so what, how important is this person?

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Great.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't care. I don't care what they did. I don't care who they are. They get a traffic cone on their head because we want to put a traffic cone on their head. And there is something that is very it feels very, very British, almost Pythonesque absurd. And this concept of using humor to take. To take the standing away from power, I love that. That's the point of satire. That's the point of lampoon. That's the. That humor should do that. It's the ultimate symbol of punching up rather than punching down. And humor that says, I don't care what you did. I don't care if you beat Napoleon at Waterloo.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

You know what?

[Dan Bernstein]

You get a traffic cone on your head. That's awesome.

[Ad Read Announcer]

That's good.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's what it should be. It should be independent of whether you. Your achievement was believed to be good or bad for a certain political party. I don't care. They put your on on all the Democrats in Boston. You know what you get us? You get a traffic cone on your head just because somebody thought to pour your. Your likeness cast in bronze and place you here and make you permanent and significant and pigeons can on your shoulders. But, hey, traffic cone on the head. I love it.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

I love the picture of the. The Duke of Wellington on the screen there.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, let me see. Yes, yes, there it is. But there's a better picture where the horse has one, too. But. But this is a. That's a symbol of Glasgow. That is in. That should be a tradition everywhere.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It's so good. Yeah. I'm glad you brought. I didn't know that you were sharing this, because this has been my favorite part.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's fantastic.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

All the Scottish fans.

[Dan Bernstein]

Brilliant.

[Ad Read Announcer 2]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's really fun. It's brilliant. It's brilliant. Here you are. You should be remembered for in perpetuity. Generation after generation will know your deeds. And there's a traffic cone on your head.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

It's our equivalent of having a book on your head.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right, right. It's like this is something Terry would come up with. There's something so wonderfully absurd. Absurd about it, and there's no real story to it other than a bunch of drunken Scots at some point in the 1980s. So what are you doing? I don't know. Let's put a traffic code on the head of the Duke of Wellington. Good idea. Damn it.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

And.

[Dan Bernstein]

And we could do it here. Could you imagine what are all of the. The Jordan statue, the Cubs statues, whatever we got down here of whoever. Go ahead. And I would never urge you to break the law. I would never advise anyone to break the law. I just think that this is on the scale of things that people do. This one is particularly sort of nihilistic and genuinely funny in the way that humor is supposed to work in a functioning society and the way it has back to the time of court jesters. Where there is, there is a way to speak truth to power. There is a way to remind power that everybody dies, no matter what you've done, that you're gonna eventually go back to the dust like everybody else. And where, where, say Shelley's poem Ozymandias, where you know, the vast and trunkless legs of stone and look upon my works, ye mighty in despair. That was sort of a serious way of reminding us you can build whatever statues to whatever your greatness is, but the sand sweeps over everything until it does. It's better off with a traffic cone on top of it. I think it's great.

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[Dan Bernstein]

One more thing before we're done here. We're heading into some massive World cup matches over the next few days. Maybe England, Ghana. Maybe it's USA And Turkey. I hope you're spelling turkey correctly. Are you spelling turkey correctly?

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah, it's spelled weird.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, it's not. That's their choice. It is T, U with the umlaut. R, K, I, Y, E. That is how. That is the. The new, correct way to spell Turkey. And that's Thursday. Maybe Uruguay in Spain, June 26. Well, now you can spend all the hours that you want breaking down tactics and lineups, or you can answer this simple question. Ready? Will the golden arches show up on the broadcast? That is an actual bet at my bookie right now. There's no injury reports. It's not expected goals. You don't have to pretend you watched qualifying matches from six different confederations. It's one of the biggest sporting events in the world and you can be a part of it with my bookie. Use the promo code DBU to claim a deposit bonus when you register and deposit and get up to $500 in protection on your first bet at my bookie. Once you see it on screen, the bet's over. So it's really just that. Will the famous golden arches appear on the broadcast? That bet is only available at my bookie, which leads us to DBU picks presented by my bookie. I'm going to jump right in and I am doing this for the wrong reasons. I am setting a bad example if you are a sports wager. But I am going to bet with my heart and not my head because it doesn't cost me anything and it's fun. So for my first ever World cup bet, I'm going to take Scotland and one and a half goals against Brazil.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Oh, okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

I will. If Scotland can keep it within two, that's all you got to do. Maybe they get. Maybe something silly happens. All you got to do is get, you know, scratch one in there. They'll probably lose seven to one. But I've decided to use my wagering magic to see if I can actually help the fine folks from Scotland. I will take the 1.5 goals.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

All right, I have two games for you today. France minus two and a half goals versus Iraq and that's a five o' clock game tonight. And I'm also taking Argentina minus one goal versus Austria afternoon game today. So Argentina minus one.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

And no, they're getting. No, they're.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, no. Excuse me. You're giving. Okay.

[Co-host (possibly a sports analyst or friend)]

Yeah, yeah, giving. Minus one and France minus two and a half versus Iraq.

[Dan Bernstein]

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